Pre-installation tasks for SySAM

For simple installations follow the instructions in this book. No additional information should be necessary.

The Adaptive Server installation guide (this document) has the following information about SySAM-related tasks:

Before you install Adaptive Server, you should:

  1. Decide the SySAM license model you will use. The choices are:

    For information about served and unserved licenses, and which model is best suited for your environment, see Chapter 2, “Choosing a License Model” in the Sybase Software Asset Management Users Guide.

  2. If you plan to use a served license, you need a license server. Decide whether it will be an existing license server or a new license server. The license server need not be on the same machine or running on the same operating system and architecture.

    NoteThere can be only one instance of a SySAM license server running on a given machine. If you want to setup a SySAM 2.0 license server on a machine that is already running a SySAM 1.0 license server, the old license server must be migrated to 2.0. A migrated license server can serve licenses for both SySAM 1.0 and SySAM-2.0-enabled products.

    Please see Appendix F of the Sybase Software Asset Management Users Guide for instructions on migrating a license server.

    For information about choosing a license server host, see the “Choosing a license server host” section in Chapter 2, “Choosing a License Model” of the Sybase Software Asset Management Users Guide.

    For information about license server administration, see Chapter 4, “License Server Administration” in the Sybase Software Asset Management Users Guide.

  3. Sybase recommends that you get your license files from the Sybase Product Download Center (SPDC) before you begin installing Adaptive Server. For information about accessing SPDC, see “Accessing SPDC”, and for information about generating your licenses at SPDC, see “Generating licenses at SPDC”.